different users for NNTP server

Yar Tikhiy yar at freebsd.org
Fri Jun 6 01:36:56 PDT 2003


On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 09:44:37PM +0400, Alexey Neyman wrote:
> 
> I just stumbled over this: while /etc/master.passwd includes the 'news' 
> user, the /etc/inetd.conf suggests running NNTP server as 'usenet' user 
> (missing from /etc/master.passwd). Shouldn't both these files refer to 
> the same user, e.g. 'news'?

While this is not exactly an architectural issue, your point seems
correct.  Moreover, we have never had a stock nntpd(8), so I'll
move the nntpd line within inetd.conf down to the section of optional
services as well.

Thanks for pointing out.

-- 
Yar


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